Pigeon detectives biography
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The Gig Cartel - Artist profiles: The Pigeon Detectives
“We’re a live band. That’s where we cut our teeth, that’s where we’re most comfortable, that’s where we have the most fun. That’s where we made our name.”
These are the words of The Pigeon Detectives singer Matt Bowman, speaking as his band have just completed the recording of their fourth album, ‘We Met At Sea’, set for release this Spring. You might wonder why you’re reading a passage about how great the Leeds five-piece are live at the top of a biography that comes tagged to the band’s latest studio offering. The answer is simple: for this one the band – having already garnered a reputation as one of the most raucous, thrilling live acts in the UK – have siphoned this rip-roar on-stage energy into their most honest, immediate album yet. This is not a ‘live album’. But it is their most alive…
“For the third album we almost went against our instincts at times,” Bowman concedes, speaking of 2011’s ‘Up Guards, And At ‘Em’, which followed their 2007 debut ‘Wait For Me’ and 2008’s ‘Emergency’ – both Top Five hits. “We reigned ourselves in.
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The Pigeon Detectives
English indie rock band
The Pigeon Detectives are an English indie rock[1] band from Rothwell in Leeds, West Yorkshire, who formed in 2004.[3] The band have released six albums from 2007 to present.
They performed at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in 2006, where they were tagged "the band most likely to leap to the main stage in 2007" in an NME review.[4] The band returned to the festival in 2007 and performed on the main stage in 2011.
History
[edit]Band name
[edit]Speaking about the band's name, the drummer Jimmi Naylor said: "I never liked the name at first. But it's stuck– and it's probably got us more attention having a silly name. The band were just discussing band names and... came up with 'The Pigeon Detectives'. It became an in-joke but we thought nothing of it. But when it came to our first gig in Leeds the promoter was saying, 'What's your name?' We were like 'Oh, um... "The Pigeon Detectives".'"[5]
When asked by BBC Sound about the name, Naylor said, "Dave breeds pigeons, and there's a pigeon that lives in a shed, that's his special pigeon, and this pigeon actually writes all the songs".[6] Another story about the band's name was proposed when Matt Bowman and Ryan Wilson wer
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Matt - Vocals
Jazzman - Guitar
Ryan - Guitar
Dave - Bass
Jimmi - Drums
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